Wednesday, April 02, 2008

"Initiated."As usual, click to enlarge, and so on, and so forth...last week's strip here.

Credit where due: Pretty sure the Helicarrier art is Jack Kirby, S.H.I.E.L.D. agent art by Keith Pollard, from various Official Handbook of the Marvel Universe issues.

Nick Fury is going to be back in short order for Secret Invasion, along with the "dramatic" reveal of where he's been. I defy you to tell me it would be better than this, and personally hope Nick shows up smelling of booze, cigar smoke, and cheap sex, no other explanation.

I haven't read Iron Man regularly since Tony Stark was made secretary of defense, towards the end of his previous series. Even though that probably wouldn't, or shouldn't, have been a permanent direction; I didn't care for the way Bendis went out of his way to crap all over it in Avengers: Disassembled. And I wasn't paying attention: how did Stark manage to get fired from secretary of defense yet still become head of S.H.I.E.L.D.? Oh, I don't care.

By the way, the role of Bob has been taken by the figure of Enterprise's Lt. Reed, the actor Dominic Keating. Give him a hand!

Keeper: Oh, just wait...no spoiler, but there is a DC Direct Sgt. Rock, so...

Stephen: The Deadpool/Nightcrawler teamup was initially meant as a rebuttal against the comic Cable & Deadpool, since I liked Deadpool but could care less about Cable. (Admittedly, Nicieza did a pretty good job on making the pairing work, and sold me a bit on Cable.) My first joke was that saleswise, Deadpool couldn't carry a book in a wheelbarrow, so Nightcrawler is bussed in for support.

That, or they're two of my favorite characters, who's toys happened to be lying around...

Sally: The weird thing is, I'm pretty used to everyone being pissed off at Tony. The old Jim Rhodes/War Machine storyline is one of my favorites, and Jim gets super-pissed at Tony for lying about being dead. Almost unreasonably so, since Tony had his reasons and very well could've just died anyway. And that seems pretty minor compared to some of the other stuff he's done...